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...being impressionable, but not hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for system-beating, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocations, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince CRIMSON-reading graders (there are a few, and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
More important, Robens doggedly set out to tighten up the operations of the sprawling Coal Board, which employs more than 580,000 people. Shuttling from mine to mine, he patiently explained to the miners the need to close unprofitable mines and automate the remaining ones. His down-to-earth, ex-union leader's approach won the miners' support. With a minimum of furor, Robens has closed 50 marginal mines in northern England and Scotland, moved many of the displaced workers to expanding mines in the Midlands. A 4% raise in miners' wages last year was more than...
...manufacturers and spawned magazines like CB Horizons and 59 (ham talk for "loud signal"). Even children yak away on CB for hours. In walkie-talkie form, this is no problem, since these little portable jobs do not carry very far. But come summer, the FCC plans to tighten its rules for owners of the big. multichannel CB rigs. Among proposed changes: cutting the time limit of conversations to three min utes, and restricting communications between different stations to five channels only; the remaining 18 channels would be used exclusively for communications between different units of the same station-from truck...
...says Dr. Krystal. feels guilty about making too much money too easily. "In June 1962 many people were expecting a depression to set in and were preparing to 'tighten the belt' with some eagerness and relief. The Peace Corps, admirable in purpose as it was. represented a form of asceticism resembling a St. Augustine-like renunciation of riches and vows of poverty. There seemed to be a growing feeling that we had had it 'too good too long,' and that the time had come to pay the price." To the analytic-minded psychiatrist, there seems...
Japanese industrialist grimly, "is to tighten security and then spy right back on those who are spying...